To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs if she will list the private finance initiative and public-private partnership projects her Department is undertaking; and what the status of each is.

I list the private finance initiative and private-partnership projects currently undertaken by the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the status of each.

PFI Project

Status

Aramis

Operational-system is up and running.

National Probate Records

Operational—business is running. Ready for use since June 2001.

LOCCs

Operational-IT systems are up and running.

LIBRA

Operational—business is successfully running.

East Anglia Courts

Operational—courts sitting since July 2004.

Exeter Crown and County Court

Operational—court sittings commenced since November 2004.

Sheffield Family Hearing Centre

Operational—court Sittings commenced July 2004.

Hereford and Worcester Magistrates Courts

Operational—courts sitting since October 2001.

Humberside Magistrates Courts

Operational—courts sitting since November 2001.

Manchester Magistrates Courts

Operational—open to public in May 2004.

Derbyshire Magistrates Courts

Construction completed—Derby and Chesterfield magistrates courts are sitting. New Mills is awaiting the outcome of a court case.

Avon and Somerset Magistrates Courts

Under construction—contracts let in August 2004.